On 14 March 2018, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic ruled in case 5 Azs 4/2018, which concerns an appeal against a ruling by the Regional Court in Brno upholding the decision of the Ministry of Interior to reject an asylum application lodged by a Turkish national of Kurdish ethnicity and of Alevi faith.

On 16 June 2017, the Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL) ruled on a case regarding a Turkish applicant of Kurdish ethnicity who unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Belgium on 19 April 2017.